Er rijden deze dinsdag nog steeds geen treinen tussen Rotterdam en Breda door een stroomstoring en dat zorgt voor grote frustraties bij reizigers. Waar de één op een dubbele reistijd moet rekenen, komt de ander in tijdnood om zijn vlucht te halen. Zoals het er nu naar uitziet, duren de problemen op het spoor nog de hele week.

Er rijden deze dinsdag nog steeds geen treinen tussen Rotterdam en Breda door een stroomstoring en dat zorgt voor grote frustraties bij reizigers. Waar de één op een dubbele reistijd moet rekenen, komt de ander in tijdnood om zijn vlucht te halen. Zoals het er nu naar uitziet, duren de problemen op het spoor nog de hele week.

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Norway named almost a complete team of reserves for the 4-1 loss to France, and so only Patrick Berg keeps his place from that very particular starting line-up. Ståle Solbakken welcomes back all of his first-choice men, so it’s the same team that started the 3-2 win over Senegal, with the exceptions of Marcus Holmgren Pedersen, who replaces the injured Julian Ryerson, and the aforementioned Berg, who is in for the benched Fredrik Aursnes. Erling Haaland resumes his quest for the Golden Boot.

Côte d’Ivoire make three changes to the side that started the 2-0 win over Curaçao. Emmanuel Agbadou, Ghislain Konan and Christ Inao Oulaï come in for Ousmane Diomande, Christopher Opéri and Amad Diallo.

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The last 32 continues with three more tantalising ties with World Cup co-hosts Mexico, tournament frontrunners France and dark horses Norway taking to the field once more. All three games promise plenty of drama and excitement.

Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappé will be two of the headline acts in Tuesday’s matches. Both players have hit the ground running, netting eight goals between them with more matches to come.

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Reckless exercise can lead to exertional rhabdomyolysis, a condition that has risen due to the popularity of high-intensity workouts

In January 2025, I attended my first bootcamp class.

I had spent the day hunched over my laptop, anxious and craving an intense workout that would dispel my worries. I booked the class at a nearby gym, and the five-star reviews promised the all-consuming exercise I wanted: “Militant style instructor, but very motivating,” read one. Another: “Hardest workout of my life; extremely rewarding.”

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MUSCAT (ANP) - Oman heeft een plan gemaakt voor het heffen van servicekosten in de Straat van Hormuz, meldt The New York Times op basis van ingewijden. Oman zou daarover zelfs al een officieel voorstel hebben ingediend bij de Verenigde Staten, die sterk tegen betalingen in de zeestraat zijn.

De bronnen van de Amerikaanse krant spreken elkaar wel tegen over de aard van de heffingen. Volgens een Iraanse functionaris zijn de servicekosten ook in het Omaanse plan verplicht voor alle schepen die door de Straat van Hormuz willen varen, maar een andere diplomaat uit de regio zegt dat de betalingen vrijwillig zijn. Een Amerikaanse bron bevestigt het voorstel te hebben ontvangen.

Het is niet duidelijk of dit voorstel alleen geldt voor schepen die langs de kust van Oman varen of voor de hele Straat van Hormuz. Iran en Oman liggen tegenover elkaar en recent gebruikten schepen vooral de route langs Oman, tot onvrede van Teheran. Iran zei maandag de zeestraat gezamenlijk met Oman te willen beheren.

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Functionarissen uit beide landen spraken maandag voor het eerst in een nieuwe Gezamenlijke Hormuzcommissie over de toekomst van de belangrijke vaarroute, die maandenlang was geblokkeerd na het begin van de oorlog tussen Iran, Israël en de Verenigde Staten.

In het zogenoemde memorandum van overeenstemming dat eerder deze maand werd gesloten tussen Iran en de VS, stond dat de Straat van Hormuz per direct weer geopend zou worden. Ook zouden er zeker zestig dagen geen betalingen worden gevraagd voor de vaarroute. Iran heeft gezegd dat de servicekosten daarna van kracht worden, de VS protesteren daartegen.

Veel Golfstaten die afhankelijk zijn van de olie-export hebben zich ook uitgesproken tegen de betalingen, omdat de vaarroute voor de oorlog gratis was.

Database management work will soon be mostly automated by AI agents, just like coding, according to the CEO of Cockroach Labs, the company behind the distributed database of the same name. Spencer Kimball told The Register that the proliferation of databases demanded by the explosion of AI agents in coding and business functions will mean that managing them in a largely manual way is out of the question. “Nobody's going to do manual work on a database, just like almost nobody's doing manual coding anymore,” he said. “A lot of people don't even know what’s within their code base anymore, like they only know the designs, specifications and guarantees. They're still verifying the software, but in the end they're just not down at the level of code, because it doesn't make sense. It's like nobody programs in Assembly,” he said. Kimball is among the tech CEOs with the commensurate background in software engineering to make such statements. He helped build Google’s Colossus distributed file storage system and, as a computer science student at UC Berkely, developed FOSS image editor GIMP, which continues to this day. In the time since, he has seen shifts in the level of abstraction before. “These cycles happen all the time. It's pretty easy to see what's coming next, because ultimately agents beyond coding are going to be increasingly complementing and supplementing human-driven workloads. They're going to use tools, tools are using APIs, and APIs are talking to operational databases, every single one. If you think about the implications of this massive scale-up of traffic, it means that operational databases are going to get busier, and a lot busier. We're talking about exponential scale-up,” he said. Cockroach Labs is not the only database company to see the level of AI agent demand on the enterprise as an opportunity. It’s where many vendors are positioning themselves. For example, vector database vendor Pinecone's idea is that by compiling a knowledge base of an organization's data structure and content, its technology can avoid burning through tokens back and forth between the data and AI agents. Tiger Data, the company behind TimescaleDB, has built Ghost, a technology designed specifically for developers working with AI agents, charging by compute, rather than by database. Cockroach Labs, whose customers include OpenAI, CoreWeave, Booking.com, and Cisco, is pitching the idea of an Agentic Database Cloud to address this demand. Among the elements will be elastic compute and storage separation, unified estate management, database virtualization and agentic operations. It expects to announce a product around this idea later this year. Nonetheless, in database estates, Kimball expects AI agents to act in an advisory role to avoid disruptions to operations. “You can imagine, the enterprise isn't eager to turn over the keys to production to an agent. These agents are a second pair of eyes,” he said. To this end, Cockroach has been building its own agents to improve its operations and how it manages databases. Kimball said it had built AI agents in a layered approach, giving agents sub tasks to perform and then allowing agents to manage those agents, and other agents that verify the approach taken. “There's all kinds of hand-offs, there's agents that help with migrations, agents that help with slow queries, agents that can diagnose problems with clusters, because they've been given the institutional knowledge. For example, our entire Zendesk history for the last two years — every customer ticket, every issue, the resolutions — has been digested and cross-indexed. The agents we're building are the engineering of the prompts, the handoffs and the quality control,” he said. The “thinking” is done by foundation models, he said. “We have some open-source ones we use that are very, very fast and inexpensive. Those do more… prosaic and mundane tasks that you do a lot of, quickly.” Kimball said Cockroach also uses proprietary models including OpenAI gpt-oss and Claude Opus. “We're trying to provide a replacement for a lot of human labor. We provide corporate ‘Artificial General Intelligence’ for database roles, that once you used to have to hire humans for, but you simply cannot do that at 10x the scale, much less 100x the scale. You have to find that way to get these agents to do extremely useful work, very consistently, at a level that is as good or increasingly better than humans. Frankly, there are things the agents can do that are so grungy you couldn't hire a human to do it, such as constantly looking through log files, and investigating threads. It's just too boring,” Kimball said. As such, Cockroach expects to be able to increase the scope of its products and the number of customers it serves, but only modestly increase its workforce. “You can do different things right now with your resources. You can try to scale the human teams, or you can figure out how to make the human teams more efficient, and that's what we're doing internally. Fundamentally, this is what we're going to do for our customers, because if you anchor yourself to what’s possible today, then you might say, 'Oh, the AI is not completely ready,' but like the speed at which these things are changing makes it all but inevitable at some point in the near future,” he said. Whether Cockroach’s vision will become reality or not, the database market will have to respond to AI in the enterprise, spending on which shows no sign of letting up. Nonetheless, if agents need databases, and databases need agents to manage them, maybe it's going to be turtles all the way down. ®

Allan McNish has reflected on the Austrian Grand Prix after Audi narrowly missed out on scoring points.